Improvement in handles for table and other cutlery



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N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D C4 iltirited (tatre MATTHEWCHAPMAN, v0F GREENFILD, MASSAGHSETTS.

Letters ltent No. 107,223, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT 1N HANDLES FOR TABLE AND OTHER. CTLERY.

The Schedule referred to in ,these Letters Patent and making part f thesame.

I, MATTHEW CHATMAN, of Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented certain 'Improvements in Knives, Forks,and other articles of cutlery, of Which the following is a specificationi Nfl-turc and Objects of the Invention..

-which- Figure 1 represents a blade with a holeA through the lip ortalig, in the form necessary to receive the handle, being simply a sheetof steel ,trimmed or struck up by a drop or press into the iorm shown,with a hole in the tang for a rivet.

Figure 2 represents a piece of strap-iron bent around in the form ofahandle, with holes for a rivet corresponding in size with the hole inthe lip 'of the blade by which the handle is secured to the blade.

Figure 3 represents the blade with the handle riveted, as shown at a.

, The knife, as shown-at"fig.f3,*isheatedto a..pro,pe 1j degree, andpassed under a powerful drop-press, which,

at one blow, perfectly welds the handle to the b lade, and leayes it ina solid and permanent form convenient for use, as represented at g. 4,the pattern and style of which may be varied at pleasure.

The' bladeis thus tempered and finished inthe usual manner.

I am aware that table and other cutlery has been made with metal'handles, by runningmalleable iron, gray iron, or other metal, onto thetang; also that the handles and blades have been forged from a solidpiece of metal; none of which methods are like the one herein described.p

Having described my invention,

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The mode `of making the handles of knives, forks,and other articlesof table and other cutlery, substantially as herein described.

2. Knives, forks, and other articles of table and other cutlery, made inthe manner substantially as' herein described, as a new article ofmanufacture. y

MATTHEW CHAPMAN. Witnesses:

AUSTIN DEWoLr, MICHAEL KELLrHEa;

